The old and new tests for celiac disease: which is the best test combination to diagnose celiac disease in pediatric patients?

I Brusca, A Carroccio, E Tonutti, D Villalta… - Clinical chemistry and …, 2012 - degruyter.com
Background: In the diagnosis of celiac disease (CD), serum assays for anti-endomysium
(EMA) and anti-transglutaminase (anti-tTG) antibodies have excellent diagnostic accuracy …

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) deficiency and alternative celiac disease-associated antibodies in sera submitted to a reference laboratory for endomysial IgA testing

HE Prince, GL Norman, WL Binder - Clinical Diagnostic …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
Immunoglobulin A (IgA) deficiency occurs more frequently in patients with celiac disease
(CD) than in the general population and can lead to false-negative results in the best …

Transglutaminase and coeliac disease: endomysial reactivity and small bowel expression

G Brusco, P Muzi, R Ciccocioppo, F Biagi… - Clinical & …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
This study was aimed at verifying whether tissue transglutaminase (tTG) is the sole
autoantigen eliciting anti-endomysial antibodies in coeliac disease (CoD) and investigating …

Coeliac disease in Sudanese children with clinical features suggestive of the disease

IM Mohammed, ZEA Karrar, SH El Safi - … Journal, 12 (5), 582-589, 2006, 2006 - apps.who.int
Our prospective hospital-based study examined frequency, clinical presentation and
serological indicators of coeliac disease that correlated with intestinal biopsy among high …

Methodology in Diagnostic Laboratory Test Research in Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

B Lumbreras-Lacarra, JM Ramos-Rincon… - Clinical …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Background: The application of epidemiologic principles to clinical diagnosis has been less
developed than in other clinical areas. Knowledge of the main flaws affecting diagnostic …

Resonant cavity imaging: A means toward high-throughput label-free protein detection

DA Bergstein, E Ozkumur, AC Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The resonant cavity imaging biosensor (RCIB) is an optical technique for detecting
molecular binding interactions label free at many locations in parallel that employs an …

Discrimination between celiac and other gastrointestinal disorders in childhood by rapid human lymphocyte antigen typing

L Sacchetti, G Calcagno, A Ferrajolo… - Clinical …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Celiac disease (CD) is a genetically complex, multifactorial immune-mediated disease (1).
The intestinal damage that characterizes the disorder is induced by dietary gluten ingestion …

[PDF][PDF] Multiplex PCR typing of the three most frequent HLA alleles in celiac disease

L Sacchetti, N Tinto, G Calcagno, P Improta… - Clinica chimica …, 2001 - academia.edu
hyperplasia and infiltration of lymphoid cells. Genetic susceptibility to CD is associated with
specific HLA class II alleles: DQA1) 0501rDQB1) 0201 that encodes HLA-DQ2 molecules …

The role of serological tests in redefining coeliac disease

A Dahele, S Ghosh - Journal of the Royal College of …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Coeliac disease (CD) is a permanent gluten-sensitive enteropathy characterised by small
bowel mucosal atrophy. The classic malabsorptive presentation was first described by …

Effect of HLA DQ2, dietary exposure and coeliac disease on the development of antibody response to gliadin in children

JF Ludvigsson, M Eylert, J Ilonen… - Scandinavian journal …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Objective. To study the effect of HLA DQ2, dietary history and development of coeliac
disease (CD) on the induction of antibody response to wheat gliadin and cow's milk, beta …